Paris, November 16, [19]11

Respected Comrade!

Upon receiving my letters of October 30 and November 1, you asked me to wait several days, as you would be occupied until November 6-10.

I replied to you that I would wait until November 12-15.

Today is November 16 and I have received no answer from you whatsoever. I regard this as an indication that you do not agree to the peaceful resolution of this matter that I have proposed and that you desire an open conflict and proceedings.

Placing upon you full responsibility for this, I declare to you that if within three days I do not receive a satisfactory answer, I shall allow the matter to take its legal course with all the consequences that follow from this.

With comradely greetings, N. Lenin
(Vl. Ulyanov)

VI. Oulianoff.
4. Rue Marie Rose. Paris. XIV.

Translated from the German

**EDITORIAL NOTES:**

¹ In 1920-1921 he headed the opposition in the trade-union discussion; from 1923 he conducted a fierce factional struggle against the Leninist programme of building socialism, defending a capitulationist theory about the impossibility of socialism's victory in the USSR. In 1927 Trotsky was expelled from the party; in 1929, for anti-Soviet activity, he was exiled from the USSR; and in 1932 he was deprived of Soviet citizenship. While abroad, Trotsky, being the most bitter enemy of Leninism, continued his struggle against the Soviet state and the Communist Party, against the international communist movement.

³ This refers to the Russian Organizational Commission (ROK) for convening an All-Russian party conference, which was created by decision of the June 1911 meeting of members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP. It was constituted in late September at a meeting of representatives of local party organizations in Baku, and then, in connection with police persecution and the danger of exposure, its sessions were transferred to Tiflis, and it functioned until the opening of the VI (Prague) All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP. By the end of 1911, more than 20 local party organizations of Russia had rallied around the ROK. It conducted extensive organizational and propaganda work in convening the VI (Prague) All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP, which took place in January 1912.

⁴ See present collection, pp. 42-43, notes 1 and 2.

¹ See present collection, pp. 46, 47-48.